Recent News

Ada native Jay O'Neal will be honored as East Central University's 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year and will deliver the Leonard Limes Endowed Lecture at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday [APRIL 29] in the Estep Multimedia Center in the University Center.

The winners of the student business plan competition will be announced at the lecture, which is open to the public. The judges for this year's competition include O'Neal, Jeff Baird, Bill Howells and Dr. Mike Thompson.

An Instrumental Ensembles Concert in the Park will be presented Sunday [APRIL 27] at Wintersmith Park. East Central University's Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone and Brass Ensembles will perform by the lake behind Wintersmith Lodge at 3 p.m.

The program will include music ranging from a John Phillip Sousa march to works by Debussy, Scott Joplin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Duke Ellington and George Gershwin.

Two area 5th grade teachers, participants in the Teaching American History Grant projects coordinated by the Center for Advancement of American History at East Central University, made presentations at the National Council for History Education's annual conference April 3 in Louisville.

Faculty members in East Central University's Sociology and Psychology Departments will lead a panel discussion on "Fate or Free Will: Why Do We Do What We Do?" on April 30 [WEDNESDAY] in ECU's Estep Multimedia Center in the University Center.

Members of Psi Chi national honor society in psychology will host the discussion from 2:30 to 4 p.m. It is open to the public.

Collage, East Central University's dance ensemble, and students in ECU's dance program will present a spring concert Thursday and Friday [APRIL 24-25] in the Dorothy Summers Theatre. Both concerts will begin at 7:30 p.m. and are open to the public at no charge.

For the first time since 1982, two students will receive the prestigious George Nigh Award which is presented annually to East Central University's top senior.

James E. Brown III of Cushing and Aradhna Pillai of Nadi, Fiji, each will receive the $500 award Tuesday [APRIL 22] from former Gov. George Nigh at a luncheon in the South Dining Hall of Taff Cafeteria in ECU's Memorial Student Union.

A new musical setting by Ada composers Victoria Davison and Rudy Lupinski of a 9th century text used mainly in Catholic Holy Thursday services will be premiered Monday [APRIL 21] by the East Central University Chorale.

"Ubi Caritas Et Amor," which means "where charity and love are, God is there," will be performed in a concert of the University Chorale, University Chorus and ECU's Woodwind Ensembles at 7:30 p.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church.

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